She was awarded $1,500 per call.

We've all gotten those annoying automated phone calls from credit card networks and cable providers. But this past Tuesday, one woman was awarded $229,500 because a company would not stop calling her.

Texas resident and insurance claims specialist Araceli King accused Time Warner Cable of harassment after receiving 153 unwanted robocalls in less than a year. As it turns out, they had the wrong number — the cable company left messages for Luis Perez, who had once held her cell phone number. The calls came through an "interactive voice response" system meant for customers who were late paying bills.

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King asked them to stop, but the calls continued even after she explained who she was in a seven-minute conversation with a representative.

Time Warner countered that it was not liable to King under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, as it had believed it was calling Perez, who had given consent to being contacted by the company.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled in King's favor and awarded triple the usual penalty, totaling $1,500 per call. He said it was "incredible" that Time Warner didn't know she objected to the calls — even after she filed her lawsuit in March 2014, she still received 74 calls.

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"Defendant harassed plaintiff with robocalls until she had to resort to a lawsuit to make the calls stop, and even then TWC could not be bothered to update the information in its IVR system," he wrote in a statement, adding that "a responsible business" would've tried harder to find Perez and resolve the issue.

According to Hellerstein, those last 74 calls were "particularly egregious violations of the TCPA and indicate that TWC simply did not take this lawsuit seriously."

"Companies are using computers to dial phone numbers," King's lawyer Sergei Lemberg said in an interview. "They benefit from efficiency, but there is a cost when they make people's lives miserable. This was one such case."